Dear fellow MoveOn member,

Call me old-fashioned, but I think people in public life need to be held
accountable for the damage they're doing to our country.

So today, I'm calling out the most dangerous demagogue since Donald Trump.
His name: Tucker Carlson.

On his Fox News show, Carlson has been peddling an outrageous white
supremacist conspiracy called "white replacement theory." It's a
decades-old piece of neo-Nazi trash that claims there is a liberal plot to
reduce the white population and replace them with what Tucker has called
"obedient people from faraway countries."^1

This filth is dangerous—very dangerous. Every single weeknight, more than
3 million people tune in to watch Tucker Carlson on Fox News.^2 It's the
largest audience of any show on cable news. And on Facebook, newly
released internal documents show that to increase their profits the
company is intentionally pushing out this violent neo-Nazi propaganda to
millions of people.^3

To fight back, I've partnered with MoveOn to use our massive combined
audiences to beat back racist lies and conspiracy theories. Together, we
will create hard-hitting, viral videos to dispel Tucker Carlson's hysteria
and get the truth out to people around the country.

But we need your help. Unlike Fox News, MoveOn relies on small donations
from members like you to power it and get its message out to the widest
audience possible. Will you chip in $5 a month so that,
together, we can fight back against the right-wing media machine?

[ [link removed] ]Yes, I'll chip in monthly.

[ [link removed] ]No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.

This latest conspiracy coming out of Tucker's mouth isn't just vile,
racist, Islamophobic, antisemitic, and xenophobic. It's deadly.

In 2019, a gunman inspired by "white replacement theory" drove 600 miles
to a Walmart in El Paso, TX, a city along the U.S.-Mexico border, where he
murdered 23 people, mostly of Latino descent.^4

According to a manifesto the gunman posted online just before committing
the mass shooting, the attack was a "response to the Hispanic invasion of
Texas."^5

And in 2018, another gunman inspired by "white replacement theory" killed
11 people at a synagogue in Pennsylvania. An investigation revealed that
the gunman believed Jewish humanitarian aid groups were bringing Central
American migrants to the United States in order to "kill" the "white
race."^6

It's not just Tucker Carlson who is spreading this deadly conspiracy
theory. Current and former elected Republicans, including Matt Gaetz and
Donald Trump, have also endorsed the theory—and thousands more right-wing
social media accounts are spreading it far and wide online.

With the lives of immigrants, people of color, and religious minorities on
the line, we need to invest massive resources in combating this disgusting
lie and getting the truth out to people across the country.

MoveOn's in-house Creative Lab creates powerful videos and other content
that directly pushes back against the onslaught of right-wing talking
points, racism, and lies. Since its launch, Creative Lab has produced
thousands of hard-hitting, fact-based videos that have been viewed
hundreds of millions of times. And with your help, I'll partner with
MoveOn to create even more viral content that pushes back against this
white supremacist bile.

But right now, MoveOn has a big problem. Donations to MoveOn have fallen
sharply since last year, and unless MoveOn members step up, MoveOn won't
have the resources to take on the right-wing's racist lies.

If you are able to, will you please start a monthly donation of
$5 to MoveOn and help push back against these neo-Nazi
conspiracy theories?

[ [link removed] ]Yes, I'll chip in monthly.

[ [link removed] ]No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.

Thanks for all you do.

–Robert Reich

Sources:

1. "Tucker Pushes Racist 'Great Replacement' Theory Yet Again, ADL Renews
Call for Fox to Fire Him," The Daily Beast, September 23, 2021
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2. "Fox News Nearly Sweeps Top 100 Highest-Rated Cable Telecasts In
August," Forbes, August 31, 2021
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3. "Neo-Nazis are still on Facebook. And they're making money," ABC News,
September 25, 2021
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4. "A racist conspiracy theory goes mainstream," Axios, September 29, 2021
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5. "Walmart shooter allegedly penned white supremacist rant in 'bible of
evil,'" El Paso Times, August 4, 2019
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6. "Jewish Groups Blast Carlson for Openly Endorsing White Supremacist
Theory: 'Tucker Must Go,'" The Daily Beast, April 9, 2021
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